We’re often told by the popular press and well-meaning family and friends that, for good health, we should fall asleep quickly and sleep solidly for about eight hours – otherwise we’re at risk of physical and psychological ill health. Continue reading
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Giving men choice: the case for routine prostate cancer screening
Prostate specific antigen (PSA) is a common blood test used by doctors to assess whether an individual has prostate cancer. It also predicts the risk of developing prostate cancer sometime in the future. It’s a good blood test but not a perfect one and the risk of cancer does increase with increasing levels of PSA in the blood tested. Continue reading
Posted in Medicine, Public health miscellany
Overdiagnosis ‘doing more harm than good’
Overdiagnosis of diseases and disorders could be doing more harm than good while wasting millions of dollars on unnecessary treatment, an Australian researcher says. Continue reading
Ritalin use for ADHD soars fourfold as child psychologists warn of untested drug cocktails
Pupils as young as three are at risk, warn experts as prescriptions soar Continue reading
